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Summarizes the main issues and strategies of the forceful and fast-paced green building movement. Many professions are increasingly producing tools to assist clients in breaking down and understanding the different elements that reside under the umbrella of the sustainability movement. For the design and construction professions, this unpacking often takes the form of green building guidelines and rating systems. This book aims to look at a selection of both national and local green building rating systems and guidelines, ranging from commercial to residential. While the goal is to provide students and young professionals with a solid overview of each product, enabling them to understand the differences and select the most appropriate system for their chosen projects, the book provides valuable overviews and comparisons for anyone interested in better buildings: designers, homeowners, realtors, contractors, facility managers, site designers, and more.
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Genre |
: Architecture |
Author |
: Traci Rose Rider |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Release |
: 2010-02-17 |
File |
: 160 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393733303 |
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Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide. The book provides a rationale, strategies, and resources for fulfilling environmental stewardship through the land and buildings of Christian and Jewish congregations. New construction, renovation, and historic preservation projects are addressed. Site development, material choices, energy generation and consumption, water use, interior air quality, green cleaning programs, and beauty are discussed. Ten congregations from across the United States and Canada are featured as examples of excellence in creation care in and through their built environments.
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Genre |
: Religion |
Author |
: Mark A. Torgerson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Release |
: 2012-05-04 |
File |
: 274 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781566995399 |
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Hawaii is a rare and special place, in which beauty and isolation combine to form a vision of paradise. That isolation, though, comes at a price: resources in modern-day Hawaii are strained and expensive, and current economic models dictate that the Hawaiian Islands are reliant upon imported food, fuels, and other materials. Yet the islands supported a historic Hawaiian population of a million people or more. This was possible because Hawaiians, prior to European contact, had learned the ecological limits of their islands and how to live sustainably within them. Today, Hawaii is experiencing a surge of new strategies that make living in the islands more ecologically, economically, and socially resilient. A vibrant native agriculture movement helps feed Hawaiians with traditional foods, and employs local farmers using traditional methods; efforts at green homebuilding help provide healthy, comfortable housing that exists in better harmony with the environment; efforts to recycle wastewater help reduce stress on fragile freshwater resources; school gardens help feed families and reconnect them with local food and farming. At the same time, many of the people who have developed these strategies find that their processes reflect, and in some cases draw from, the lessons learned by Hawaiians over thousands of years. This collection of case studies is a road map to help other isolated communities, island and mainland, navigate their own paths to sustainability, and establishes Hawaii as a model from which other communities can draw inspiration, practical advice, and hope for the future.
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Genre |
: Science |
Author |
: Jennifer Chirico |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Release |
: 2015-04-30 |
File |
: 290 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780824854164 |
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The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define "sustainability," and thus judge architecture through such lenses, is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline—architecture, it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed, the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better, more efficient, or more stringent codes to guide place-making, but a matter of reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.
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Genre |
: Architecture |
Author |
: Steven A. Moore |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-07-24 |
File |
: 295 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781135079871 |
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Genre |
: Academic libraries |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 2009 |
File |
: 594 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCSC:32106021251472 |
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A career guide for professionals in sustainable architecture, design, planning, development, and related consulting For those considering a new career or a career change focused on green and sustainable building and design, Becoming a Green Building Professional offers practical information on educational requirements, career options, guidance and tips, and first-hand interviews with green building professionals. Perfect for underemployed architects and other building and design professionals who want to reinvent and renew their careers, as well as students considering such a career, this is a vital and informative guide to a growing field.
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Genre |
: Architecture |
Author |
: Holley Henderson |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Release |
: 2012-08-03 |
File |
: 541 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781118310397 |
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Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The collection is aimed mainly at promoting the development of Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering, at strengthening international academic cooperation and communication and at exchanging new research ideas. These proceedings will provide readers with a broad overview of the latest advances made in the field of Buildings, Materials and Civil Engineering.
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Genre |
: Technology & Engineering |
Author |
: Dong Ye Sun |
Publisher |
: Trans Tech Publications Ltd |
Release |
: 2011-07-27 |
File |
: 5550 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783038135395 |
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Genre |
: Sustainable architecture |
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2006 |
File |
: 410 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X030047879 |
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ECO Guide immerses you in the strategies and tactics that leading edge professionals are using to tackle pressing problems and create innovative solutions.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Business & Economics |
Author |
: Environmental Careers Organization |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2004-11-29 |
File |
: 432 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: MINN:31951D024494737 |
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Genre |
: Industries |
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 420 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: IND:30000125141550 |